Google Search Console

Reports detail accurately of the current performance

It is capable of sampling out SEO issues to improve your ranking.

It constantly tracks search results

I find it hard to recrawl URLs using the inspection tool.

Reports highlight so much data making it hard to follow up during analysis.

Provides insightful data.

Provide Opportunity to available URL on google.

It helps to suggest core web vital errors.

No, need for improvement everything is fine.

provide data

monitor performance

guide in improving websites organic traffic

better filter option on the performance section with ability to get data for a list of pages instead of just a single pages

Search engine Index

Search optimization

Showing the Index Status

Confusing Protocol for keywords search

data sampled getting slowly

No other Cons

Keywords

Impressions/clicks

Rich results

Data is inconsistent from Google Trends & Analytics.

Providing Search Terms for what real people are searching for

Providing Appearance Rankings for where my websites appear in search results

Providing what problems may exist with indexing sites

Does not accept .html formatted xml sitemaps.

I don't think indexing is always complete for websites I've submitted

Monitor, maintain, and troubleshoot your site's presence in Google Search results.

Helps you understand and improve how Google views your site.

Fix new or updated content indexing issues.

Some features only work well in conjunction with other Google tools such as Google Analytics, Google Trends and Google Ads.

It's is a bit hard to use.

Sometimes it does not give the answers or the specific searches.

Search Engine Terms Visualization

Ability to sort based on times/pages

Difficult to understand HOW to make improvements

Lack of suggestion for rating terms you want to rank for but don't

Easy-to-read graphs and reports

Supports multiple sites/domains

Free to use

Easy to setup (especially in conjunction with Google Analytics)

Easily identify best performing pages on a site

Doesn't show ALL backlinks to each page - only a selection

Mobile usability errors are sometimes inaccurate - giving a false positive

Data is delayed by a few days

Provides ongoing monitoring of website performance.

Identifies potential issues that could impact a website's SEO.

Convenient dashboard format of information.

Not user-friendly for non-technical individuals or people with more basic SEO knowledge.

Doesn't always provide specific examples of errors identified.

Keyword insight

CTR

Data takes some time to come thru (at least 2-3 days delay iirc)

Link review for SEO.

Search keywords and performance.

Page experience monitoring.

No detection dates on the incoming links.

Mobile usability suggestions are not always helpful.

Security issues are not listed - Just "no issues detected."

SEO issues detection.

See pages as search spider sees.

Managing external links.

Sometimes it's hard to navigate through the console.

Indexing results should have better views.

Analyze basic search engine performance.

Identify potential website issues.

Track search results and landing pages in a more granular way.

The streamlined toolset removed some key tools we used to utilize.

It is more difficult to implement re-crawl requests and know when to expect answers.

Sharing access with additional users is more challenging.

Data on impressions, clicks and average position in Google results.

You submit your sitemap and can check for issues.

None

Keyword specific performance data for SEO.

Technical SEO feedback including site speed, mobile usability and much more.

Some features are still in beta and thus have limited or incomplete data.

The coverage report can have overwhelming data that makes it hard to know what is a concern and what is ok.

The best way to analyze your google SEO.

It helps to find who is linking to your site.

The way it shows your sites is a bit confusing. It shows your URL as different sites for "HTTP" and https" It should consider that the same site.

This tool could easily be combined with Google Analytics. Currently, it just adds another step to the SEO process.

Allows you to directly submit a sitemap to Google for crawling.

Shows common search queries used to access site.

Recrawling of pages that have suggested improvements is very slow

Disavowing non-existent URLS doesn't remove them from the error report

The "new" SC's Overview is great for sharing with clients as it's a simplified presentation of different data with graphs.

Performance is my turf. It is designed for me at a glance to recognize the peaks and valleys of traffic. Clicks v. Impressions remains something central to SEO and other marketing efforts.

This is surely subjective, but as long as I could, I used the old SC but now that I am forced to just use the new, there still is a bit of a learning curve. Again, this is not a fair complaint as in time all will be forgotten, but I really do miss the old version.

One thing I do not like is the loss of the Manual URL Submission. I understand why it's been removed, but sometimes I am doing refreshes of pages and want that new version visited and reindexed ASAP rather than have to wait for Google to revisit.

Tracks indexed pages of your website

Insights into use of schema

Keyword information

Could use more details on why pages not indexed

You can also submit your sitemap directly to Google and get it crawled.

You can also index and crawl you updated and new webpages.

It also displays errors that are preventing your site pages to get indexed in Google.

You get a list of all the keywords for which your site is ranking.

You can track its position, CTR and impressions.

Sometimes, the average position it shows for a particular webpage is not that accurate.

Understanding issues depicted by search console can be difficult at times as they are very technical.

It doesn't accept HTML sitemaps.

Detailed insights on search query help us to identify areas of opportunity for clients.

Great user interface makes working with GSC a breeze to learn.

Ability to access discontinued tools allows us to use GSC our way, even when it's not necessarily what the devs intended.

Some specific components can require more in-depth knowledge than may be expected by the average GSC user.

Search engine optimization.

Analyze data.

Audience targeting.

Implementation,

User-friendliness,

Ease-of-Use.

Reporting on Search Performance: monitor, track and research your organic performance over time or compare time frames.

Meta Data Testing and monitoring: make sure your product, events, AMP, and other meta tags are properly configured.

Monitoring Security and Manual Actions: ensure that Google is not reducing your ranking for security issues or SEO errors.

Producing suggestions for SEO improvements: Search Console provides links to resources to help improve the way Google crawls, indexes, and shows your website in search results.

Reporting is strong, but could benefit from some additional functionality, such as sorting by % changed.

Some functionality is lost in the "New" Search Console, forcing you to revert to the old version to get things done.

Because the "Old" version doesn't have the same functions as the "New" one, you're forced to switch back and forth between both platforms to get many things accomplished.

Many of the "Warnings" and Suggestions aren't very clear on how to fix the issue, or are vague in their explanation of what is wrong.

70% of our traffic source is Google and Search Console gives bird eye view of our performance.

Keeping track of mishappenings on site related to indexing.

Tips and suggestions help improving cross-device visibility.

Vital information columns like competition/CPC goes missing in some properties without notice.

Severe warnings are sometimes a problem on the bot-crawling part and show nothing on the webmaster's side.